[209] leaves ; 29 cm (4to)

Title from incipit on leaf [1]₂ recto.

The printer's name appears in the first of Mombritius's epigrammata on fol. [1]₁ verso, lines 6-7 and 10-11: Omnibus ut pateant : tabulis imp[re]ssit ahaenis / Vtile Lauania gente Philippus opus ... Nunc ope Lauaniae numerosa uolumina nostri / Aere perexiguo qualibet urbe legunt.

Eusebius's text translated from Greek into Latin by Jerome

With the continuations of Prosper Aquitanus and Matthaeus Palmerius Florentinus

Edited by Boninus Mombritius

The copy in Parma Palatina belonged to Nicodemo Tranchedini who listed this book, among others, in his Zibaldone under the date 19 June 1475: see P. Parodi, in Giornale storico delle province parmensi, 20 (1920) pp. 162-64

For an earlier manuscript date, 1468, in the copy at Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale: see P. Scapecchi, in L. Fabbri and M. Tacconi (eds), I libri del Duomo di Firenze, Firenze, 1997, pp. 168-70; Arnaldo Ganda. Filippo Cavagni da Lavagna. Editore, tipografo, commerciante a Milano nel Quattrocento, Firenze, 2006, pp. 87-88

Signatures: [1¹⁰(1₁₀+1) 2-23⁸ 24-25⁸ 26⁶] ([26]₆ blank; all leaves unsigned).

Royal quarto; [1]́ rRoyal quarto; [1]₃ recto: 35 lines, 189 x 109 mm; type: 108R; initial spaces without guide letters. ecto: 35 lines, 189 x 109 mm; type: 108R; initial spaces without guide letters

COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.18 FOLIO with initial spaces lettered in brown ink. Some leaves signed in early manuscript in lower right margins. All leaves numbered in pencil in the upper right margin. Leaf dimensions: 275 x 200 mm.

PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.18 FOLIO with BPL gift plate of Theodore F. Dwight. Early/contemporary marginalia on several leaves. Acquired Aug. 1892.

BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.403.18 FOLIO bound in early blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Spine rebacked in modern goatskin tooled in gilt. Single leaves of a medieval German missal bound-in between [1]₁₀+1 and [2]₁ and after [26]₆.

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